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Josip Osti (19 March 1945 – 26 June 2021) was a Bosnians and Slovenes poet, prose writer and essayist, literary critic, anthologist and translator.
Since 1990, Osti has been living in Slovenia, first in Ljubljana and then in the village of Tomaj in the Karst Plateau region, where he worked as a freelance writer.
Osti published some twenty-five books of poetry (last ten were written in Slovene language), four books of prose, twelve books of essays, literary criticism and journalistic texts, as well as the book of conversations with Izet Sarajlić and the book of correspondence with Biljana Jovanović.
Osti edited and translated ten anthologies of Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Slovenian poetry and prose, and translated more than eighty books and fifteen plays by Slovenian authors. Some thirty translations of his books in Slovene language, Italian language, Czech language, English language, Polish language, Turkish language, Bulgarian and Macedonian have been published.
Osti won the Slovenian literary awards: Zlata ptica ("Golden Bird", 1993), Veronikina nagrada (Veronika Award, 1999), Župančičeva nagrada (Župančič Award, 2000) and Jenkova nagrada (Jenko Award, 2006), as well as the Vilenica International Literary Prize (1994), the special international poetry award Scritture di Frontiera (Trieste, 2005), and the PONT international literary prize for intercultural cooperation (2019).
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